ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT

OF OIL IMPREGNATED PRESSBOARD

WITH VARIED ELECTRIC FIELD STRESS AND TEMPERATURE

F. Pratomosiwi
1*
, N. Pattanadech
1
, T.F. Sipahutar
2,4
, G. Pukel
3
, R. Schwarz
3
,
Suwarno
4
, M. Muhr
1

1
Institute of High Voltage Engineering and System Management,
Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
2
PT.PLN (Persero), Indonesia
3
Siemens AG sterreich Transformers Weiz, Weiz, Austria
4
School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Bandung Institute of Technology,
Indonesia
*Email: <fpratomosiwi@student.tugraz.at>

Abstract: In this paper, we analysed the nature of dc conductivity measurement on the oil
impregnated pressboard (OIB) with different electric field stress i.e. 0.1 kV/mm (low), 2.5
kV/mm (medium) and 5 kV/mm (high) and at three temperatures i.e. 25C, 60C and
90C.

1 RESULTS
1.1 Electrical Conductivity with Different
Electric Field Stress

Figure 1. Influence of electric field stress onto the electrical
conductivity
Figure 1. shows that in terms of the relaxation time,
the effect of applied electric stress was not visible
and In terms of dc conductivity value, higher
electric field stress (up to 5kV/mm) does not
increase significantly the dc conductivity value of
OIB.
1.2 Electrical Conductivity with Different
Temperature
The dc conductivity value and relaxation time of oil
impregnated pressboard have a strong
temperature dependency and it fits the Arrhenius
relation with the same value of activation energy
shown in Table 1. It can be also noted that the
relaxation time of OIB is inversely proportional to
the dc conductivity value.
Table 1: ACTIVATION ENERGY OF PRESSBOARD B 3.1A 2MM
Method
Activation Energy
(kJ/mol)
20 - 60C 60 - 90C
Dc conductivity 109 - 120 129 - 138
Tan delta shift 106.5 -118 124 -130


Figure 2. Influence of temperature onto the electrical
conductivity
From the measured activation energy and the dc
conductivity value, we calculated the pre-
exponential factor for pressboard B 3.1A
impregnated in mineral oil. The exponential factor
is between 7E+5 - 9E+5. It gives good approximation
of dc conductivity of pressboard B 3.1A at different
temperature.

2 CONCLUSIONS
a) The dc conductivity of oil impregnated
material has a weak dependency on the
applied electric field stress.
b) The dc conductivity and relaxation time of oil
impregnated pressboard have a strong
temperature dependency and it fits the
Arrhenius relation. Making measurement at
higher temperature will fasten the
measurement time to reach steady current,
as the temperature will exponentially
accelerate time required to reach steady
state value.

3 REFERENCE
[1] A. Kchler, F. Huellmandel, K. Boehm,
M. Liebschner, C. Krause and B. Heinrich,
Parameter Determining the Dielectric
Properties of Oil Impregnated Pressboard and
Presspaper in AC and DC Power Transformer
Application ISH 07 International Symposium
on High Voltage Engineering, 2007.
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